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ByDavidKeyton and Jan M. Olsen The Associated Press STOCKHOLM A hijacked beer truck plowed into pe- destrians at a central Stock- holm department store Fri- day, killing four people, in- juring 15 and sending screaming shoppers scat- tering in panic in what Swe- den's prime minister called a terrorist attack. A nationwide manhunt was launched and one per- son was arrested following the latest use of a vehicle as a weapon in Europe. Nearby buildings were locked down for hours in the heart of the capital and the main train station was evacuated. "Sweden has been at- tacked," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in a na- tionally televised press con- ference. "This indicates that it is an act of terror." He added: "The country is in a state of shock." The truck traveled for more than 500 yards (me- ters) along a promenade known as the Drottning- gatan and smashed into a crowd outside the Ahlens department store about 3 p.m. It came to rest in the entrance to the building. TV footage showed smoke com- ing out of the store after the crash. "People were scream- ing and running in all di- rections," said Brandon Sekitto, who was in his car nearby. He added that the truck "drove straight into the Ahlens entrance." "I saw the driver, a man in black who was light around the face area," Bran- don told Swedish daily Da- gens Nyheter. "I heard how some women were scream- ing, 'Run, run!'" Although there was con- fusion throughout the day on the number of victims, the Stockholm City Council said in the evening that four had been killed and 15 were wounded, nine seriously. Authorities evacuated the nearby Central Station, a hub for regional trains and the subway system. All trains to and from the main station were halted and sev- eral large shopping malls in Stockholm were shut down. Sweden's national theater, Dramaten, canceled three performances Friday eve- ning. Police arrested a man in Marsta, a northern Stock- holm suburb close to the in- ternational airport. "We have arrested one in whom we are particularly interested," Jan Evensson of the Stockholm police told a news conference. He said the person looked like the man depicted wear- ing a greenish hood in a surveillance camera photo the police released earlier. "We continue to investi- gate at full force," Evens- son said, urging people not to go to central Stockholm. Stefan Hector of Swe- den's national police said the working hypothesis was that "this is an act of terror." The Swedish brewery Spendrups said one of its trucks had been hijacked a few blocks from the scene earlier in the day. "It is one of our deliv- ery trucks. In connection with a delivery to a restau- rant called Caliente, some- one jumped into the truck and drove it away while the driver was unloading his delivery," Spendrups spokesman Marten Luth told the Swedish news agency TT. The truck crash appeared to be the latest attack in Eu- rope using a vehicle. In an attack last month claimed by the Islamic State group, a man drove into a crowd on London's West- minster Bridge, killing three people and injuring many others before stab- bing a policeman to death. He was shot and killed by police. A fourth person, a woman thrown into the Thames by the force of the car attack, died Thursday. TheISgroupalsoclaimed responsibility for a truck attack that killed 86 peo- ple in Nice, France, in July 2016 during a Bastille Day festival, as well as another truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas mar- ket in Berlin. SWEDEN 4 killed in truck attack described as terrorism JESSICAGOW— TTNEWSAGENCY Armed police patrol outside the central station in Stockholm a er a truck crashed into a department store injuring several people in a different part of Stockholm, Sweden, on Friday. By Vivian Salama and Julie Pace The Associated Press PALM BEACH, FLA. What was billed as a showdown between the leaders of the United States and China over trade and North Ko- rea ended with little sign of confrontation Friday — or of concrete progress in resolving their differences. President Donald Trump had predicted a "very diffi- cult" meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. After their first face-to-face at the Mar-a-Lago resort, he trumpeted they had devel- oped an "outstanding" rela- tionship. U.S. officials said the two sides agreed to increase co- operation on trying to get North Korea's to abandon its nuclear weapons pro- gram, and China acknowl- edged the need for more bal- anced trade with the U.S. But the two days of meet- ings appeared heavier on optics than substance. The most powerful message for the Chinese leader may have been Trump's deci- sion to launch U.S. missile strikes at Syria. Those strikes added weight to Trump's threat last week to act unilater- ally against North Korea's weapons program — al- though a much heavier risk would be required to take military action against the nuclear-armed North, which has its artillery and missiles trained on a key U.S. ally, South Korea. The U.S. administration's first recourse is very likely to be economic — pushing China to crack down on Chinese banks and compa- nies said to provide North Korea access to the interna- tional financial system. In a possible harbinger of the kind of punishments Washington could inflict, a leading Chinese tele- coms company, ZTE, was fined nearly $900 million in March for shipping sen- sitive U.S.-made technology to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. "They recognize that shows our clear determina- tion to crack down on this sort of activity," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. and China "agreed to increase cooperation and work with the international commu- nity to convince the DPRK to peacefully resolve the is- sue and abandon its illicit weapons programs." DPRK stands for North Korea's of- ficial name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Tillerson said Trump and Xi noted the urgency of the threat of North Korea's weapons program and that they reaffirmed their com- mitment to a denucleariza- tion of the divided Korean Peninsula. On trade issues, Trump called for China to "level the playing field" for Amer- ican workers, stressing the need for reciprocal market access. He also noted the importance of protecting human rights, and asked China to adhere to interna- tional norms in the seas of East Asia, Tillerson said. As a candidate and pres- ident, Trump has taken an aggressive posture to- ward China, labeling Bei- jing a "tremendous prob- lem" and arguing that lop- sided trade deals with China shortchange Amer- ican businesses and work- ers. Some $347 billion of the $502 billion trade deficit re- corded by the U.S. last year was with China. FLORIDA SUMMIT Showdown between Trump, Chinese leader fails to materialize at Mar-a-Lago ALEX BRANDON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, on Thursday in Palm Beach, Fla., during a two-day summit. | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017 6 B